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Makai Ocean Engineering’s software,
MakaiLay,
has
recently
been
commissioned for several new cable
laying vessels. MakaiLay is an advanced
subsea cable installation software
designed to enable users to lay submarine
cables with a high level of accuracy,
speed, safety and reliability, and so
dramatically reduce the risk of cable
failures.
Korea’s KT Submarine (KTS) has installed
the software on its cable laying ships,
Segero
and
Responder
, and is currently
using it to manage a cable installation in
the Pacific. “To provide more accurate
cable installation services to our client
we started using MakaiLay in our most
recent cable lays, and we are impressed
with its capabilities,” said Mr Moon, KTS’s
engineer-in-charge.
“Especially useful is the look-ahead
feature that allows us to keep the cable
on the desired route and to maintain
the correct bottom slack by issuing
appropriate instructions to the cable
engine and the DP operators.”
MakaiLay is currently being commissioned
on NTT World Engineering Marine
Corporation’s
(NTTWEM)
newly
constructed vessel,
Kizuna
. “We have
been relying on MakaiLay to safely and
efficiently complete installations for the
past 18 years on our existing cable laying
vessel,
Subaru
,” said Mr Takayuki Tanaka,
technical senior manager, NTTWEM.
“We are glad to see that our earliest
customers, like NTTWEM, continue to trust
our product, [while] at the same time, we
are encouraged to see that newer clients
are adopting MakaiLay as they get into
more challenging installations,” said Dr
Venkata Jasti, manager submarine cable
systems, Makai Ocean Engineering.
Submarine software
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